The current terminology is: “Reset Tax Tables to current values?” “Yes, reset the Tax Tables” “No, keep them as they are”
Regards, Adrien > On Jun 20, 2020 w25d172, at 7:59 AM, Derek Atkins <de...@ihtfp.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sat, June 20, 2020 6:55 am, finf...@gmail.com wrote: >> I have renamed some of taxtables and see the same old names in my bills >> and invoices. >> >> I also see a lot of records with the same taxtable names in Postgresql >> table "taxtables". >> >> Could some body explain the logics of this table? What is "parent" in it? > > If you search the archives I'm sure you'll find I've gone through this in > excruciating detail in the past. > > In short, Tax Tables get frozen when an invoice is posted. And future > changes to the Tax Tables introduce a Copy-on-Write semantic. > > The reasoning is that if you post an invoice in 2018 with a 2% tax and > then in 2019 that tax changes to 3%, if in 2020 you need to revisit that > 2018 invoice you want it to display with 2% tax, not 3% tax. So to solve > this problem the tax tables are frozen on posting. When you unpost an > invoice with tax-table associations it asks you whether you want to keep > the taxes or "unfreeze" them (I forget the terminology). I.e., if you > unposted that 2018 invoice and told it to unfreeze, then it would change > those taxes from 2% to 3% and the values would change when you re-posted > the invoice. Sometimes this may be what you want (e.g. to correct an > error in the tax table), but sometimes it may NOT be what you want (e.g. > to correct a typing error). > > The "parent" is a pointer from the frozen tax table to the non-frozen one. > So when the 2018 invoice is posted, it freezes and when you change it in > 2019 you get a parent/child relationship between them. > > Hope this helps! _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
